RAFFAELLO SanzioSposalizio (The Engagement of Virgin Mary) 1504Oil on roundheaded panel, 170 x 117 cmPinacoteca di Brera, Milan

RAFFAELLO SanzioSposalizio (The Engagement of Virgin Mary) (detail)1504Oil on roundheaded panel, 170 x 117 cmPinacoteca di Brera, Milan

RAFFAELLO SanzioSposalizio (The Engagement of Virgin Mary) (detail)1504Oil on roundheaded panel, 170 x 117 cmPinacoteca di Brera, Milan

RAFFAELLO SanzioSposalizio (The Engagement of Virgin Mary) (detail)1504Oil on roundheaded panel, 170 x 117 cmPinacoteca di Brera, Milan

RAFFAELLO SanzioSposalizio (The Engagement of Virgin Mary) (detail)1504Oil on roundheaded panel, 170 x 117 cmPinacoteca di Brera, Milan

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RAFFAELLO SanzioSt Sebastian 1501-02Oil on wood, 43 x 34 cmAccademia Carrara, Bergamo

RAFFAELLO SanzioSt Sebastian (detail)1501-02Oil on wood, 43 x 34 cmAccademia Carrara, Bergamo

RAFFAELLO SanzioSt Sebastian (detail)1501-02Oil on wood, 43 x 34 cmAccademia Carrara, Bergamo

RAFFAELLO SanzioSt Sebastian (detail)1501-02Oil on wood, 43 x 34 cmAccademia Carrara, Bergamo

RAFFAELLO SanzioThe Granduca Madonna1504Oil on wood, 84 x 55 cmGalleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence

RAFFAELLO SanzioThe Granduca Madonna (detail)1504Oil on wood, 84 x 55 cmGalleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence

RAFFAELLO SanzioThe Granduca Madonna (detail)1504Oil on wood, 84 x 55 cmGalleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence

RAFFAELLO SanzioMadonna of Belvedere (Madonna del Prato)1506Oil on wood, 113 x 88 cmKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

RAFFAELLO SanzioMadonna of Belvedere (detail)1506Oil on woodKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

RAFFAELLO SanzioMadonna of Belvedere (detail)1506Oil on woodKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

RAFFAELLO SanzioMadonna of Belvedere (detail)1506Oil on woodKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

RAFFAELLO SanzioMadonna of Belvedere (detail)1506Oil on woodKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

RAFFAELLO SanzioMadonna del Cardellino1507Oil on wood, 107 x 77 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

RAFFAELLO SanzioMadonna del Cardellino (detail)1507Oil on wood, 107 x 77 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

RAFFAELLO SanzioMadonna del Cardellino (detail)1507Oil on wood, 107 x 77 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

RAFFAELLO SanzioMadonna del Cardellino (detail)1507Oil on wood, 107 x 77 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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Considered one of great master painters, Raphael was an Italian painter and architect in the High Renaissance. Raphael, along with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, are considered the great trinity of master painters of the High Renaissance period. He was a prolific artist, and despite death at the young age of 37, has a considerable body of

work to study.

Raphael was born into an artistic family, as his father was the court painter to The Duke of Urbino. After his mother’s death in 1491 and his father’s death in 1494, eleven year

old Raphael, who had already shown artistic talent, played a large role in continuing his father’s painting studio.

He was first described as a fully-trained master painter in 1501, roughly around the age of 19. Even at this early stage in his career, he was in high demand, and completed

many commissioned works. Raphael continued to paint, traveling constantly, living the life of a semi-nomadic painter. He was able to merge the influence of Florentine art with

his own developing style, creating a smooth, flowing composition, which was highly regarded.

The three great masters, Raphael, Leondardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo, were all contemporaries. Leonardo was thirty years Raphael’s senior, and the younger painter incorporated many elements of da Vinci’s paintings in to his own works. Michelangelo, on the other hand, was only eight years Raphael’s senior. Michelangelo already did not like Leonardo, and he disliked the rising popularity of Raphael even more, starting conspiracies and spreading rumors

about Raphael.

In 1508, Raphael moved to Rome, where he would reside for the rest of his life. His first major work inn Rome was a commission to decorate the Pope’s private library, the Stanza della Segnatura. After he finished this room, the Pope was so pleased with his work that he assigned him to other rooms of

the building, displacing other artists who had been commissioned to complete the works.